Once the money earned from the farm was depleted, her brother Grant supported Graham and their mother financially.

The animal pictures that she painted and showed in New York were often used on ornaments, screens, decorative panels, play-rooms, and more.

She later made around 20 scrapbooks of Grant's life which were microfilmed by the Archives of American Art within the Smithsonian Institution.

[4][5] In 1993, her memoir, My Brother, Grant Wood, was posthumously published by the State Historical Society of Iowa.

[6] In 1928, Graham's brother Grant Wood returned after a working trip to Munich, Germany, and he felt inspired to paint a picture of a cottage that was in Eldon, Iowa.

[1] People who saw the painting assumed that the portrayed couple was married, but Graham said that her brother intended it to be a picture of a farmer and his daughter.